the horns of ames

Katrina

Ok, so many of you know that I went to New Orleans with Cornerstone Church in Ames in the end of October to help do a little bit of relief work. And I do mean a little. We drove down there and arrived Friday afternoon and worked until Monday afternoon. It seems like we did a ton of work, but in the grand scheme of things, we really only helped out a handfull of people. Of course, to those people, it made a huge difference in their lives.


We mainly helped church members of the First Baptist Church of New Orleans, but on Monday we drove around to find people to help. Some people actually turned us down (skeptical), but others really appreciated our help. We tried to make it clear that we were just being servants for Christ.


It's going to take a long time for that city to rebuild, but I was encouraged by the fact that most of the relief work is being done by Christian organizations, so God's Word is being lived and preached in this trying time. A lot of the evil of the city has gone, but they will need to work to keep it out when they rebuild. We can be praying for that. The Salvation Army is truly a great organization and have seen 200 people profess to come to Christ in New Orleans. They don't just distribute food and necessities, they also show people God's love and talk about Christ's free gift of salvation.


There are so many pictures that it doesn't make sense to post them here. I have put together a slideshow presentation you can download at http://www.hornit.net/katrina.zip, but beware that it is 9.5MB so it is really only for high speed internet users. The slideshow highlights some of the best pictures we all took.


If you want to peruse the over 800 pictures that were taken by many of the 24 people that went down, you can check out http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=om8wg8q.6b4nzjai&x=0&y=ia5elb. Again, there are a ton of pictures, so dialup users beware. Although, the thumbnails aren't so bad and they will start loading individually, so you can still probably get good pics without having to wait long. I have a condensed version with 56 pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/HornIT/KatrinaOctober2005

posted by Aaron @ www.HornIT.net @ 11:41 PM